read last 2 characters from string

Hello.
-2 are the last two characters in the string.

set xx to text -2 thru -1 of xx

This is an important and useful feature of AppleScript. When referencing items in a list, positive numbers work from the beginning of the list while negative numbers work from the end.

For example, you can use 'word 1' to get the first word of a string, or 'paragraph -2' to get the penultimate paragraph.

Hi Spencer,

Adding to the info you've already gotten in this thread...

Try this:

set xx to "test string"
set xx to text -2 through -1 of xx
--sets xx to the text string "ng"

or this:

set xx to "test string"
set xx to characters -2 through -1 of xx
--sets xx to the list {"n", "g"}

depending on how you need the characters returned to you in your script.

Hope this helps...

Hi thanx, that did the trick, it's all so easy as you see the answer.